Using trowels and brushes to remove ancient soil at an Early Bronze Age burial site in ... began to explore the possibility that the symbols on the cylinders could be an early Semitic alphabet dating ...

And now it carries a handsome cash prize: $1 million for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley ... he theorizes, were pictograms that could also mean “star ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural ...

Winemakers facing the adverse effects of climate change should revive ancient wine grape varieties that survived for centuries in Israel’s Negev Desert, say experts at the University of Haifa. They ...

An ancient and enigmatic stone circle in the Middle ... The monument is called Gilgal Refaim in Hebrew (meaning "Wheel of Giants") and is open to the public, but it can be reached only on dirt ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

But using ice cores and other ancient data points allows scientists to peer much deeper into the past, and establish that the climate today is likely warmer than it has been in 120,000 years.

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a more complex rise to fame than one might think. The birth of ...

Piece by piece, experts carefully transported the Phoenician vessel to dry land, where it will be studied and preserved Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Archaeologists have raised a 2,600-year-old ...

These included cooking pots, jars with fragments of ancient Hebrew inscriptions, loom weights, scarabs, stamped seals with decorative motifs, and grinding stones used for crushing grains.

The capacity for subjective experience, or sentience, is a defining feature of consciousness. An organism is considered sentient if “there is something it is like to be that organism.” 1 In ...

The Greek document details a court case in ancient Palestine involving tax fraud and provides insight into trial preparations in the Roman Empire Sonja Anderson The 404 coins, including 44 from ...